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ritchboy: Release them in the middle of their contract? What financial or footballing sense does it make when they'll still pay most if not all of the outstanding wages?
You think Chelsea is a post office?

the ones currently in contracts can be sold! i don't believe essien, lampard and malouda won't get deals in the mid-table teams. chelsea didn't do enough to move these players...

I actually rate Romeu.

you rate tshabalala so it's no surprise!

Sagamite: The 3rd layer are the layman's champions (people a layman would call intelligent because they are kind of good, but it is mostly based on popular arguments and they struggle when the issue becomes too complex for their intellect). These are the MBJs, coogars, Kobojunkies, maclatunjis and also the funkadelic debaters. Funkadelics are people that their opinion is always soaked with urban popular philosophy not deep and hardcore critical thinking

this sagamite is intellectually-sterile!
you are so small time - you actually think you are smart? let me laugh in hebrews! the last time i counted, it's coogar 3-0 sagamite! in case your memory fails you, i remember decapitating you on the amy winehouse thread, dr fireman's thread and recently the thread about kids and mobile phone.......

if you keep telling yourself you're smart then maybe you would start believing it....when a debate was set up some weeks back, we all saw how you ran with your tail between your scrawny legs and making excuses up that you had some rare bowel condition! if you ever beat me in a debate - i would kill myself - standard!!!!!

dayokanu: Werent you the same person touting AVB as a top manager last season when he was in Chelsea

i rated the brand of football he wanted chelsea to play but i constantly condemned his constant use of mata as a left forward instead of playing him behind torres! i condemned his constant use of 4-3-3 instead of 4-2-3-1!

he's not entirely at fault @ chelsea - he inherited too many shyte players to suit the kind of football he wanted and roman didn't give him much money to spend!

dayokanu: Which of these wouldnt you have bought. Hazard, Oscar, Moses?

i wouldn't have bought lukaku, moses and marin!

Who would have bought Essien at 38, Lampard at 34 and malouda and Malouda at 33? Didnt you see the way Essien was auctioned and no one still wanted him

then release them and save the wages paid. lampard is on £180k/week, malouda(£120k), ferreira(£90k), essien(£120k).......do you know how much that translates to in one year?

dayokanu: I like your style, Roman should have bought Martinez for 40m, De Jong for 20m, Hazard for 30m Oscar for 40m and also Falcao for 60m. Over 200m in one window in addition to Mata and another 50m Torres already

if na your money na so you go spend am?

de jong - £5m
martinez - £30m
falcao - £50m

as opposed to amassing 12 midfielders and having to loan almost half of them out to give them premier league action! chelsea should have also offloaded many of their relics to generate some income.....what's malouda still doing at chelsea? essien? meireles? romeu? lampard? they are all waste of wages!!!

united will win the league - its inevitable! we always win it a season after finishing as runners-up!! we were a minute close to winning it last season despite the ridiculous injuries we had. now, we have vidic back and we have added 2 excellent players in kagawa and van persie!

the midfield looks shaky but i think fergie is gambling on ando-clev to turn it on this season and debarring injuries, i am confident they can. jones and rio are now training, evans should start tomorrow and we have a good cover for mr evra this time around! i am optimistic about our chances provided everyone stays fit for 80-85% of the league campaign!

RuuDie: Yes, they are. . . sedately said!

sedated by what? lsd?

dayokanu: All last season you were clamouring for more technical players and to get rid of the mechanical players in attack. This year 2 massive changes have been made which is Hazard and Torres which you've always rooted for.

So what else is wrong with your attack Mr Lateefu

lampard and mikel cannot cover for chelsea's front four!
they would need a much more aggressive holding midfielders to do the water-carrying! none of torres, mata, hazard and oscar has any defensive ability. at least with rooney, tevez, pedro, suarez, etc you have strikers who can press and defend from the front - the chelsea attacking quartet cannot offer that so they have to play 2 Tiotes in that middle......

roman should have bought martinez and de jong!

Kobojunkie: Tell my aunt to go to AIT/NTA? What the frell? What has bad belle to do with this? You again?? ugh!!! Abeg get lost!!

bad belle = my aunt went through the same hell so theres nothing special about this white woman. so i am asking you for the umpteenth time to instruct your aunt to go tell her story to lindaikeji and co.

debosky: I no tell una? DeboSKYSPORTS is always on the money on deadline day.

As for Spurs. . . .we'll see how well the buys gel together. I'm nonplussed about the signings they've made considering they've lost tried and tested EPL players like VdV and Modric.

so sigurdsson, dembele and dempsey are not tested epl players? you gooners love to chat nonsense. spurs had the best transfer window in the league. hugo lloris is proven - much better than szczesny - each and every of their new recruits in the midfield would walk into the arsenal team. they have adebayor up top! the only question is villas-boas and his quack managerial skills! if he gets it right, na touch-cloth for wenger!

nateevs: Slowly, folks are coming around to the point I made in May.
It almost became a situation where any criticism made gets frowned at and shut down with pointing fingers at a UCL trophy.

The truth is the euphoria only lasts a minute. This is football and almost very soon, the stage is reset, everyone starts on a clean slate and those that excel are those who dared to say it like it is. In a minute, we are reminded that the so-called heroes who could do no wrong actually have an infinite amount of frailty to sort out

The jury is still out on RDM. I am yet to be convinced about his attacking setup. It's all well sitting back and launching a counter . . .Easy football. What's more difficult is formulating a method of attack. Although, we've won three games in the PL, Hazard's contribution cannot be underestimated.

This method of attack - if we have any - will be put to test the very first game Hazard does not play in.

i don't know what chelsea fans were expecting - you won the champions league via putting 10 men behind the ball against barcelona/bayern - it's not like chelsea played any fantastic football. y'all should have stuck to that tactics and hope for another penalty shoot out instead of the open football you played last night!

[quote author=tpia@]Coogar and crazyman (if you're not one and the same because your reasoning is similar)[/quote]that is because you are a consummate [color=#000000]r[/color]etard!
you don't like the fact that a white woman married a nigerian or what exactly is your problem? if you feel aggrieved, you can marry a white man too - don't be frustrated because mr. owonubi chose a white man instead of a hapless old hag like yourself!

Stop embarassing nigeria.
The country already has a bad enough reputation as it is.

we should stop embarrassing nigeria? something you have managed to achieve almost 20 years ago with the way you and many other naija babes have turned several european cities into [color=#000000]p[/color]rostitutes paradise? you are a tool, tpia!!

Kobojunkie: I have an aunt who happens to be american and has been married over almost 30 years. She too had to leave her family to marry my uncle, and she ain't writing no long stories of it either.

then tell your aunt to go to ait/nta and narrate her own story...
the fact that she wasn't celebrated for what she did does not mean we should not celebrate mrs. owonubi - nigerians and their bad belle!

[quote author=tpia@]^try to act civilized occasionally, you are not in the bush. Yes, we all know white women are your reason for living but how does that concern other people.[/quote]why don't you take your own advice? are you civil?
where in my comment did it suggest white women rule my world? tpia, if you are too slow to cope with the pace of this discussion, then i cannot help you. your thought process needs help!

If someone was not told of white ancestry in their lineage then no, they might not be aware they have any.

how won't they know? some certain features would be different.....hair, skin and eye colour, etc...

And yes, we know you're ignorant of the fact that its not only europeans who are technically white.

you're a troglodyte...
tpia, if you are going to continue to act like a silverback then pretend my [color=#000000]d[/color]ick is a balloon and blow it, you lethargic leprechaun!

RuuDie: You've already mentioned some of the names yourself!

milner, downing and walcott are better than nani? ruudie, let me have what you are smoking!

texazzpete: Apple is being ridiculous

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/31/apple-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-galaxy-note-patent-lawsuit/

Now they are taking this crap too far.

let them take it as far as they can, there's no steve jobs again to make another ground breaking idea. if apple lets this slide, they might lose their dominance to all these copycats for life!

chic2pimp: Messi a winger?.......

how did he start? as a defender?

falcao caused so much hazard and he deserves more than an oscar for that mata

[quote author=tpia@]a lot of africans/nigerians are mixed.

some know it and some dont.[/quote]how won't an individual know she's mixed? tpia and her periodic brainfarts!!

free2ryhme: [img]http://1.bp..com/-tVZG8JP9Ga0/UD-uxZcfEKI/AAAAAAAAo6g/0SyPMpcb5V0/s400/...001MAI-INSPIRED-1-460x317.png[/img]

what a story!!!
marrying a nigerian against all odds must be tough.....

proudly9ja: Breaking News!!!!
Arsenal signs Howard Webb from ManUtd for £12m with £100,000 for every 3points as add ons!!

Its like deboskysports sold Proudlysports Silvestre-like journos. All of them gave us false info

Seriously though, Rangel rejected Arsenal. He didn't want to be back up to Sagna and we reported some hours ago that Chelsea didn't want to sell Essien to a direct rival.

Proudlysports 'proudly' hands over to deboskysports till next transfer window

I saw this somewhere and think some of you might be interested. As much as we don't like the team, they've done good business this window:
Players Out:
Vedran Ćorluka - £5.5m
Sébastien Bassong - £4m
Niko Kranjčar - £5.5m
Steven Pienaar - £4.5m
Luka Modrić - £33m
Rafael van der Vaart - £10.3m
Giovani dos Santos - ?m

Total: £63.8m+

Players In:
Gylfi Sigurðsson - £8m
Jan Vertonghen - £8m
Emmanuel Adebayor - £5m
Moussa Dembélé - £15m
Clint Dempsey - £6m
Hugo Lloris - £8m

Total: £51.5m

tottenham have bought really well ----the midfield partnership of dembele n sigurdsson would be heavenly. dempsey in the whole with bale and lennon as wingers is [color=#000000]o[/color]rgasmic....adebayor on top of all that is fatality! i expect spurs to take 6 points from arsenal this season!

Ibime: Our mechanical players never put in a performance like this, not even offensively

Even when we faced teams that choc-a-block we take the play 20 yards up the pitch by lumping to a big striker and start building from there

Always respect attacking players that can hustle. Love Oscars spirit and even hazard is trying. Mata and Torres must work harder

Mikel lamps can never protect this front four. mikel will never succeed in such a system. According to someone on talksport you need a defensive midfielder to cover Chelsea defensive midfielder mikel. Lamps does not have the pace for that.


No need to overreact cos Chelsea was playing a friendly whilst Diego someone sides always play like the world is about to end.

Like what rdm is saying now about the performance. This is the best way to learn. Not finding out when it really matters

lampard should retire abeg - he did nothing out there today - it was mikel doing last ditch tackles and spreading the play.....lampard was awful offensively and useless defensively!
seriously, chelsea need warriors in the pivot to protect the front four ladyboys you lined up!!

torres + hazard + mata + oscar need 2 no nonsense defensive midfielders to do the dirty work! you need 2 water-carriers, you need to clone makelele of 2000-2003 and essien of 2005-2008!

StarBoard: And for the last time, nobody cares too much about wingers these days.
Even you should know that by now.
And my point was about the mostly inept play of the above listed players that is responsible for OAPs still abounding and flourishing at United

we are united, we care about them! we picked up a scrawny boy from madeira and turned him into an absolute football beast! the top 2 best players in the world today are wingers, go figure!!!!

nateevs: As you see, when they move the ball, it's always with purpose.
When they switch play, it's because they are exploiting a new channel.

This sort of play is basic football teaching on the training ground.
How to move off the ball, yet maintain the team shape.

That's how you create chances. Small wonder we haven't created a single chance.

Football has moved on from just common sense management.
Strong tactical nous cannot be underestimated.

you nailed it!

One other problem we have is the disadvantage of the style of players we have.
Neither of Mata or Hazard is able to create sustained natural width.
They all conjure in the middle, meaning Ashley and Ivanovic, the two worst creative outlets we got, attempt crosses.

9 times out of 10, they both will never get in the box neither will they put in a decent cross against a resolute side. It has to be one or the other. Not both.

traditional wingers are going extinct! because the world is now trusting 4-2-3-1 more, inverted wingers are preferred by most managers than the traditional ones! it explains why united are the only side still playing 4-4-2 at top level football....we only have wingers who can stretch the width outwards, the silvas, matas, hazards of this world love to drift inwards!

4-0!!!
this is a rout - a proper hiding!!!
chelsea should throw in the towel - this is like spartacus in a sword fight with fat ibime!

nateevs: Deploy a sitting DM and another deep-lying play-maker with good pace recovery.
Or play two similar DMs who just sit and protect the back four. They don't get too involved in the forward play.

3rd option, ditch the double pivot entirely and play a 4-3-3.

double-pivot has worked for athletico - it's the strength, pace and the work ethic that have been the difference! chelsea need to inject more pace - the slow lethargic build up play is a disadvantage.

nateevs: Ramires out. Ah! Thank God.

RDM must realise that a Ramires, Ivanovic right attack is absolutely inert.
Also, we need to begin to move away from this Mikel, Lamps pivot rubbish.

It has to be one or the other. Not both.

it's a fitness problem - athletico are stronger on the ball, faster to the ball and are winning all the duels. chelsea's midfield has created nothing tonight and they had more possession in the first half. athletico bide their time and they counter effectively!

dayokanu: See you in a few hours got a flight to catch

labour weekend starts

no wonder - dayo is not watching the game and he's commented like a pregnant goat infected with conjunctivitis! dayo expects torres to go take the ball from cech and dribble his way to score! dayo, don't come back here until you tender an apology to all chelsea for your spastic opinion and your homoerotic thought process!

dayokanu: How did Falcao reach that place to get the pass? Do you think he was shekpe keeping when the midfielder had the ball?

an intelligent team mate found him with the pass - torres has not been found. i am not surprised with the result. had chelsea played an open football like this against barcelona and bayern in europe last season, they woulda been murdered! athletico are good counter attacking football team. they sodomized bilbao in europa cup final last season playing counter attack. final result was 4-0!

nateevs: I am sorry but you say very stooopid things time and again.
Did you see the space Falcao run into?
Have you seen the AM build up, when they tend to release Falcao on goal, there's never more than 4 Chelsea players in our box.
Is it the same for Chelsea?


Why are you acting like a troll? Must you post?
Everyone here's talking about how shambolic our display has been, you are blaming Torres.

dayo is a troglodyte!
when he's on a witchhunt like this.....he says idiotic things like he's doing tonight - trolling without shame! how can anyone blame torres for this show of shame. has torres even had a shot at all? falcao's teammates had laid it on a plate for him 6 times tonight and dayo would blame nando for lack of service? this is a disgrace!

dayokanu: Demba ba, papiss Cisse, Berbatov are mediocre players who lit up the EOL

yes now, demba ba and cisse won golden boots, didn't they?
ronaldo murderered la liga, diego forlan killed it, ruud strangled it - all pichichi winners. 3 man utd exports! rossi, kanoute, reyes, average players in the premier league and painted la liga red!!! dayo - you know it - the english league is stronger!

dayokanu: How can they create a key pass when the intended recipent aka Striker is not making runs but more interested in keeping shekpe

did you see that? 3-0
falcao!!!!

see the key pass/assist?
it sets him one on one with goalie - show me a similar chance for torres!!

dayokanu: You mean even with Hazard and Mata running things?

No one undertstands Torres in football Not Xavi, Not iniesta, Not Lampard not hazard no one

you are so idiotic - what things have mata and hazard run here? i cannot find them on the pitch. athletico have bullied the chelsea midfield. not sure you are watching this game - stop following the commentary on radio, find a good pub in your area and watch the game - chelsea have not created a key pass in this game at all!

dayokanu: A much more difficult league indeed. I bet Santacruz, Demba ba, Pappis Cisse, Berbatov can attest to that
37min Hazard gives a ball to Torres runs for the return, Torres strikes it into defenders.
Falcao didnt get those chance by Shekpe keeping

ronaldo, ruud, forlan, kanoute, guiseppe rossi - they all mopped the floor with la liga!
mention a fresh la liga import that has won a golden boot in england? i would do the same and we can collate the results later.

dayokanu: You think Falcao got those chances by catwalking and shekpe keeping all over the field or by making intelligent runs

are we watching the same game? you didn't see the smart passes athletico made to find falcao? this kinda weak analysis makes me tired! chelsea have not created one chance for torres in 35 mins of play - and this is what i say about chelsea's laboured football. they don't create enough chances for their strikers!

dayokanu: getting the work done in division 2?
Torres never got 15 La Liga goals in any season spent, Falcao got 24 in his first

he got 24 pure league goals in his debut season in england - a more difficult league!!

dayokanu: Can shekpe keeper see how its done?

Or we would hear that Athletico have more technical players than Chelsea

you have started your idiotic witchhunt again - has chelsea created a single chance for torres in this match at all?

dayokanu: The 50m triker Roman splashed on what has he done in close o 2 seasons
So you are talking about a 100m strikeforce thats $150m on two positions? If na your money na so you go spend am?
Spending 50m or any amount at all on Torres is the worst footballing decision in the last 20yrs

do you know how much chelsea have spent in the midfield? they have about 12 midfielders as we speak - how are they going to play all of them? the money spent on oscar, marin, moses, meireles, etc could have secured falcao - they knew drogba was leaving and yet they are paying huge wages for 12 midfielders!

roman should have splashed £50m on falcao - his finishing here has been world class! bought to replace aguero/forlan and he's not disappointed at all!